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I’ve noticed lately that spammers are hitting my contact form about twice a week. What’s weird about it is that it just says something like “Buy <drug name>” or “Cheap <enhancement drug>”. The notes don’t give any information about who is selling it or where to get it.

And the comment spam I’m seeing is just about as useless. Spam filtering techniques have gotten to the point where just about the only things that will get through are genuine human messages and complete garbage. I’ve seen a few where it appeared people typed them up and just used the URL field to try to advertise their sites. Others were filled with what appeared to be random gibberish with copious links to sites with URLs that looked like they were created by hitting a bunch of keys on a keyboard all at once. What kind of sucker would click one of those links?

So if most of the spam lately doesn’t provide any good ways of getting the spammers into a search engine because it’s gibberish, or they can’t even list their site because of the filters, you really have to wonder why the spammers even bother anymore. Is it sheer cussedness? Are they up to something that they think will pay off in the long run? Or are they just being annoying buggers for the heck of it?